‘Dawn came back and they were still in cities;No marvellous creature rose up from the water…Some waving pilgrims were describing islands.“The gods,” they promised, “visit us from islands,Are stalking head-up, lovely through the cities;Now is the time …to sail with them across the lime-green water….”So many, doubtful, perished in the mountainsClimbing up crags to get a view of islands;…Ah, waterWould gush, flush, green these mountains and these valleys,And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands.’(W H Auden, May 1933)

Not Dream of Islands is an exhibition of paintings with and without rhyme,selected by John Chilver and Daniel Pettitt.